Wall Street Journal Crossword June 26, 2026 Answers

Below are all the clues for the Friday, June 26, 2026 Wall Street Journal Crossword, titled “Director’s Cut” by Matt Gaffney. Today’s puzzle has a total of 78 crossword clues. Click any clue to reveal its answer, letter count, and past appearances.

ConstructorMatt Gaffney

Clues78

Grid15×15

Across

1Start for starter0 Letters

5Amethyst amounts0 Letters

11Cartoon snapshot0 Letters

14He beat Arthur to win the 1972 U.S. Open0 Letters

15Removable facial feature, briefly0 Letters

16Tool by a pile of firewood0 Letters

17The British media, figuratively0 Letters

19Jeans name0 Letters

20Discernment0 Letters

21Standard0 Letters

23Snake’s warning0 Letters

25Fully fill0 Letters

26“Mr. Blue Sky” band0 Letters

29Dish with many ingredients0 Letters

32Stable diet0 Letters

35Play actors, before opening night0 Letters

39Where a pirate may wind up0 Letters

41Funny Martha0 Letters

42Forgo forbidding0 Letters

43“Je t’___” (French words of endearment)0 Letters

44Scandinavian toast0 Letters

45Olympia is there0 Letters

47Fit perfectly0 Letters

49“Take this”0 Letters

50Forest dweller in Middle-earth0 Letters

51Taylor’s tour0 Letters

54Disrespectful responses0 Letters

56Pillars of Hercules locale0 Letters

61Café addition0 Letters

65Miner matter0 Letters

66“Broad City” co-creator/star0 Letters

68Home run hitter0 Letters

69Lewis’s land0 Letters

70Cut, as wood0 Letters

71High numbers at MIT0 Letters

72Destroys, as documents0 Letters

73Celtic tongue0 Letters

Down

1Make finer, in a way0 Letters

2Jazzy Fitzgerald0 Letters

3Tells a cover story, e.g.0 Letters

4“___ don’t fail me now!”0 Letters

5HTML formatting lang.0 Letters

6Legal eagle: Abbr.0 Letters

7Hard to find, for Flavius0 Letters

8Some laptops0 Letters

9Bara of the silents0 Letters

10Begins in a committed manner0 Letters

11San Fran is there0 Letters

12Office VIP0 Letters

13Scallion look-alike0 Letters

18Thompson of “Creed”0 Letters

22It may come with a string attached0 Letters

24Scarecrow filler0 Letters

26Miscalculates0 Letters

27Isn’t watertight0 Letters

28Playful rebuke0 Letters

30“___ una” (Spanish for “It’s one o’clock”)0 Letters

31Wrexham tongue0 Letters

33Overused0 Letters

34“Biloxi Blues” playwright0 Letters

36Tougher to trap0 Letters

37Architect Mies van der ___0 Letters

38Word in ice cream flavor names0 Letters

40Nice guy0 Letters

46Sam of “Jurassic Park”0 Letters

48Prepares for a marathon, say0 Letters

52Name on Iran’s flag0 Letters

53Harrison mate0 Letters

55Green veggies, in one spelling0 Letters

56Cold desert0 Letters

57Babylon’s locale, now0 Letters

58Puts money on it0 Letters

59Green Gables girl0 Letters

60Surprising incursion0 Letters

62Industry kingpin0 Letters

63Cuts down0 Letters

64Sea flier0 Letters

67Empty talk0 Letters

About the June 26, 2026 WSJ Crossword

The Wall Street Journal Crossword for Friday, June 26, 2026 runs under the title “Director’s Cut” and was constructed by Matt Gaffney. It uses a 15×15 grid and contains 78 clues — 37 across and 41 down. Every answer above has been solved and verified by hand.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many clues are in the June 26, 2026 WSJ Crossword?

This puzzle contains 78 clues — 37 across and 41 down — all listed above with links to individual answer pages.

Who constructed this Wall Street Journal Crossword?

The June 26, 2026 puzzle was constructed by Matt Gaffney.

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